Engraved in reverse direction after the oil painting of 1785 now in the Tate Gallery, T02257. In the engraving Stubbs has brought the figures of the central girl and the man on horseback into more prominence by bringing them forward and enlarging them in proportion to the other figures.

Stubbs invited subscriptions for the publication of ‘Reapers’ and its companion ‘Hay-Makers’, at ‘Two Pounds Ten Shillings the Pair’, in a printed prospectus dated 24 September 1788 (repr. Judy Egerton, George Stubbs, 1984, p.225), in which he also advertised prints he had already published.